Wei_Dai comments on Convergence Theories of Meta-Ethics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 February 2011 01:21:23PM 13 points [-]

So we need another word to filter out those kinds of somewhat-arbitrary proposed meta-ethical systems. "Objective" probably is not the best word for the job, but it is the only one I can think of right now.

This is where I stopped reading.

I suggest that you actually read the SEP entry on meta-ethics instead of just linking there - if you did read it, feel free to correct my guess. Metaethics does not mean what you said it did (metaethics is a theory of what morality is, not a way of comparing moralities), moral realism does not mean what you said it did (your belief that morality is a real thing out there constitutes moral realism), naturalistic metaethics do not mean what you said it did, CEV is totally not about convergence in all possible minds, etcetera. I also have to ask whether you read the Metaethics Sequence, but I mostly regard that sequence as having failed so I won't be surprised if the answer is yes.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 08 February 2011 07:33:01PM 4 points [-]

the Metaethics Sequence, but I mostly regard that sequence as having failed

By "failed" do you mean the presentation didn't get your ideas across, or do you think the ideas (or some of them) are wrong or incomplete?